Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment was granted as to the two faxes in question and denied as to the remaining two, where a question of fact remains regarding the accuracy of the transmission status data of the faxes.
On May 11, 2023, US District Court, M.D. Florida found a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) violation can occur even where the intended human recipient of a fax did not print.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Sometimes what the Court does
not address is the most interesting issue in an opinion. That’s the case we are covering today.
Scoma v. National Spine & Pain Centers, LLC, 2:20-cv-430-JLB-MRM, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46655, 7 (M.D. Fla. March 12, 2021).
The TCPA prohibits using any facsimile machine to send “an unsolicited advertisement.” 47 U.S.C. 227(b)(1)(C). In a case involving a frequent TCPA plaintiff, Scoma Chiropractic, P.A., a court in the Middle District of Florida denied a Defendants’ Motion to dismiss. First, the Court rejected Defendants’ argument that the fax at issue did not qualify as an advertisement. Second, the Court also raised, but did not resolve, important First Amendment issues about the speech implicated by the fax.